Pining For A Dose Of Carter Economics

Pining For A Dose Of Carter Economics
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In The Denver Post, Vincent Carroll writes about The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, by Matt Welch and me:

A colleague at The Denver Post gave me a bomber of home- brewed beer the other day, so I took it to my patio and toasted Jimmy Carter.

Yes, that Jimmy Carter â?? he of the "crisis of confidence" speech, stagflation, Desert One, windfall profits tax, and other missteps.

Yet while Carter by and large is remembered as a failed president, he also helped lay the groundwork for the prosperity of the 1980s and '90s by freeing entire sectors of the economy from the shackles of restrictive regulation.

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